The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-09-14
THE WESTERN STATES.

RAwsoN, Ohio with 800 inhabitants, was
the scene Of q great oon6agration. Half OF
the town was destroyed, and the loss is esti-
mated at 600. 0o0
THE safe Of the County Treasury at Green
vile. Darke County Ohio, was found open
Monday morning and a large amount OF
money is missing. County Treasurer Simon
and his son were arrested, the father being
charged with embezzling s35, 900, and the boy
with the larceny Of $4,000 Both waived ex-
animation and gave bail simon's shoe store
has also been closed by the Sheriff. The new
County Treasurer was TO assume charge in
few days, and Simon claims the safe was
rifled by robbers
GEN CROOK telegraphs from Rawlins, Wyo-
ming, to the War Department that all un-
authorized persons have been expelled from
the Uintah and Ouray reservations, and that
the Utes are all at home and quiet
THREsmNG engine exploded on William
Bumphus' farm, at Garden Springs, Ill
Bumphus was blown to pieces, and five other
persons were wounded, three OF them fatally.
THE trustee Of the insolvent firm of T. /.
Harper & Co. has reported TO the Probate
Court, at Cincinnati, that the total appraised
value of the assets is but sos, 302, while the
direct and indirect liabilities foot up SO, l54,-
ST. Creditors may get about four cents on
the dollar.
The Creston express, on the Kansas City,
ST. Joe and Council Bluffs Railroad, ran into
a local passenger train which was standing on
the main line near Alton, Iowa, killing five
persons and wounding about twenty more.
10 aai1 no dina 10 tha rail-
ness Of the conductor on the local The
killed and wounded were taken TO Creston-
The list of injured was chiefly confined to
the sleeper on the rear end of the passenger
train, as follows:
Infant child OF the Rev. A. f. Mosher. Cres-
ton.
Mrs. Mosher, head and arms badly cut will
probably die.
Charles Cook, Brooklyn, n. Y, with wife and
two sons, en- route to Nebraska, were in sleep
er:, The youngest son, 4 years old, was fear
fully scalded, probably fatally. Other mem
bers OF family not seriously hurt.
L. j. Gray, Greenfield. Iowa, horribly cut.
H. &. Fullerton, Chillcothe, Wis, spine in
jured.
Sarah Griminger, Cleveland, scaldod.
Miss Anna Morrell, Red Oak, Iowa, face and
J. A. Bailey and wife. Michigan, both injured
in back and slightly scalded.
G. Brockman and wife, Michigan, slightly
scalded.
The injured are cared for at the Summit
House, Creston, and are doing as we'll as could
be expected.
A SIOUX CITY Qowa) special says: "A jury
has finally been impaneled in the Haddock
murder case, in which Fred Munchrath, Jr.,
is defendant Something over fifty men were
examined before the panel was filled The
State and defense exhausted all their peremp-
tory challenges. The personnel of the jury is as
follows: One druggist, one merchant, two I'M
dertakers, one gardener and seven farmers. The
jury is considered much better than the one
which tried John Arensdorf, and 1t is believed
that verdict will be rendered in accordance
with the evidence, though some think the
jury will hang in any event The defendant
looks haggard and careworn, ard it is thought
that before the trial is over he will tell what
he knows and place the crime on the right
man. He was made somewhat of q scape-
goat at the Arensdorf trial There is little
question but he knows of the incidents lead
ing to the murder and was near the scene of
the tragedy when it occurred
THE Illinois Supreme Court has not yet an
nounced its decision in the case OF the con-
demned Chicago anarchists, says Chicago
special There are rumors to the effect that
the whole matter will go over to the spring
term.
AT New Hampton, Iowa, two boys under 10
years of age are under arrest charged with
attempting TO wreck tram. The examples of
youthful depravity say their intention was to
rob the dead and injured passengers, and adj
mtted they read with avidity @yellow-back"
literature.
CALIFORNIA celebrated Friday the thirty
seventh anniversary of its admission to the
Union.